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## [alpha] INSIGHT - Mexico - Thoughts on Casino attack, NYT piece, other notes - MX01

Released on 2012-08-24 05:00 GMT

Email-ID | 119490
Date | 2011-09-06 18:33:41
From | michael.wilson@stratfor.com
To | alpha@stratfor.com
List-Name | alpha@stratfor.com

SOURCE: MX1
PUBLICATION: Check with Fred first
ATTRIBUTION: Mexican government official
SOURCE DESCRIPTION: Senior Foreign Ministry Official
SOURCE Reliability : A
ITEM CREDIBILITY: B
DISTRIBUTION: Alpha
SPECIAL HANDLING: None
SOURCE HANDLER: Fred
Question posed to contact --
What's your read on the casino fire and the leaked NYT story on cross
border ops?
Response from contact --
CASINO FIRE
As you are aware, the incident has sent shockwaves throughout the
Mexican public. The barbarity of the incident is notorious, and
the fact that it happened in Northern Mexico's industrial heartland
does not help matters at all. However, in looking at the trends,
we can see that things were getting out of hand in NL well before
the Casino incident.
Despite being home to the infamous "narcobloqueos", where
commercial trucks and busses were used to block roadways in order
to prevent LE from responding to a hit, NL, and MTY specifically
never had a Joint Operation like Chihuahua and many other states
do. The reason why is because business interests lobbied against
it. Having seen that an increased government presence does in
fact, in the short term, bring further violence, the powerful
business magnates pledged to the President and convinced the
governor and all of the mayors that they could keep things under
control. At the time, Calderon had already suffered some
tremendous fallout with the business commmunity over monopolies and
public contracts. Therefore, a political decision was made to keep
NL on the back burner.
As you very astutely registered, there was an increase in federal
presence in NL shortly before the Casino Fire. I have no
information on whether the two things are related, but it is
something worthy of analysis.
According to a friend, the dynamic that has taken place in MTY
rather than in other places is that the cartel rivalry is not
territorial, but "thematic" or "industry-based". Certain
manufacturing industries get extorted by one group while another
group extorts certain service industries. The clearest example is
the Macroplaza, where you now see cartels fighting over businesses
to extort. At first glance, it seems territorial. However,
analysis show that they are actually going after whatever
businesses seem to be the most convenient for their specific type
of operations. Needless to say, any business that can launder
money easily will be of great value.
Finally on the casino fire, I tend to think there is a "before" and
"after" this event. People are starting to realize that there have
to be limits to violence, but they are waiting for some kind of
tool to get personally involved against the violence. 53 deaths in
a major metropolitan area speaks volumes, and regardless of how
politicians present it, people truly want an end to it.
ON THE NYT PIECE
The fact that this kind of information gets leaked does not help
anyone. I would simply point out that this specific setup is used
very rarely and only when a series of circumstances are met. The
decision to do it this way has come from Mexico City and not from
the field. Politically, there is nothing wrong (in Mexico) with
having our own guys come in from the US to do an operation having
received staging area support.
Frankly, I think the largest issue still barring cooperation on
intelligence sharing is the fallout from Fast and Furious, and the
CIA involvement in other capacities that is becoming increasingly
apparent to outsiders. If there are significant black ops taking
place (which I truly hope there aren't, only because it will send
bilateral cooperation back to the 70's), then we can expect a host
of problems and a scaling back on our cooperation with the US.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION FINAL NOTE
All eyes toward Central America in the next two weeks or so. For
several months, very high level discussions have been taking place
regarding a "reset" of our national security strategy with regards
to the Central American countries. Expect to start seeing more and
more Mexican involvement and potentially tripartite cooperation
with Colombia in key Central American countries, potentially
without the US blessing.
--
Michael Wilson
Director of Watch Officer Group, STRATFOR
michael.wilson@stratfor.com
(512) 744-4300 ex 4112